Yahya Abdallah al-Ubaydi

Yahya Abdallah al-Ubaydi was the Ba'ath Party Regional Command Chairman for Basra Governorate in Ba'athist Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

Biography
Yahya Abdallah al-Ubaydi was born to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and he joined the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Saddam Hussein. In time, he was promoted to be the Ba'ath Party Regional Command Chairman for Basra Governorate in the south of the country, and he managed to escape capture by the United States during the Iraq War.